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Nature's smallest apartment complex, flooded and evicted twice daily.
means A shallow pocket of seawater trapped among rocks at low tide, left stocked with whatever crabs, anemones, and snails didn't swim away in time.
from Straightforward compound: 'tide,' from Old English 'tīd' meaning 'time' or 'period' (the sea's schedule, basically), plus 'pool,' from Old English 'pōl,' a small body of still water. The phrase itself is a plain, functional coinage — no hidden drama, just English naming a thing exactly what it is: a pool left behind by the tide.
- stocking rate
- same creatures survive both ocean and bathtub extremes
- zonation
- species stack in bands by flood tolerance
- anemone trick
- clones itself and wages war on neighboring clones
- timing
- best viewed during new or full moon low tides